Ian Birrell

Sacrificing to the false god of gold

A team of Miami Herald journalists investigate the vast environmental cost of goldmining in Peru and its link to murderous cartels

Illegal gold mining in the Amazon rainforest area of south-east Peru, September 2019. Credit: Getty Images 
issue 15 May 2021

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